Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-19

ulu IL, no one KNOWS. lt was u0ne,
it is reasonable to suppose, in self
defence. The person who did it
probably had the muzzle of one or
more reyolvers pointed at him. If
so, he was justified in killing his
would-be mundcrers.
One wrong begets another.
Not knowing who threw the bomb,
the police were not slow to find vic
tins for their revenge They did
know who was denouncing them and
their masters. The capitalists, fear
full of the result of the criticism of
their means of robbing labor of its
products, fearful of the growing in
telligence among the people, tlockcd
to the assistance of their hirelings,
and money was lavished upon all
who would assist in the assassination
of labor's champions. But the hyp-
ocrites must not overstep the law, so
the law is bent to their wilt is
"construed," and Justice is prosti-
tuted. Even the preachers OF Christ
(save the mark are used as a power
to influence the superstitious and ig-
norant. The men who dared openly
take sides with the disinhcrited-the
robbed and despised and gulled
working people-are traduced and
pictured as very fiends. A venal
press, under control of the fright
ened bourgeoisie, and published and
edited by venal and mendacious hire
lings, or, to be charitable, ignorant
and arrant towards, takes up the
cry of the blasphemous pulpit, and
multitudes who were falsely and ig-
norantly reared to place implicit con-
fidence in "ther betters" turn on
their true friends and vie with their
false teachers in the cry which is
synonymous with that of "CruciGy
him TO the cross with him p ap-
piled to the "God" which these very
| hypocrites pretend to worship.
And SO they were doomed to be
hanged, while the modern Pilates,
the Supreme judges and the Govern
or of Illinois, washed their hands in
a basin of technicality.
HOW THEY DIED.
While we would impress our readers
with the fact that the capitalist class
perpetrated a most horrible crime,
and while we would have the worE-
ing people ever remember the brutal
ity of their enemies and foster an
eternal hatred for the acts commit
ted and for the system which per-
mts such horrors, we have net the
heart to publish in detail the story
of capitalistic brutality. 1t is suf1i-
cient to say that our brave advocates
died like brave men, never flinching
before the gaze of the brutes in hut
man form who watched with fend-
ish intensity for sign of fear. The
undignitied and frightened behavior
of the judge while passing Sc tence
was repeated by the hirelings who
carried it into effect. The martyrs,
on the other hand, were firm, digni-
fled and scornful of their brutal exc
cutioners and the mob of cowardly
politicians, pimps and heelers who
gazed upon them totally unable to
comprehend the fearlessness of the
four men guarded so carefully as vic
tins for the gallows. Louis Lingg
had eluded them-he chose his own
method of death the day before. No
supersttious horror disturbed their
calm awaiting of eternal sleep. And
so it happened that Rev. DR.. Bolton
found his vocation superhuous when
he called to offer religious consola-
tion."
So craven were the lawful murder
ers that they dared not permit their
victims to make final speeches from
the scaffold, so that each of them
uttered but a sentence.
August Spies said, prophetically:
"1'he time will come when our ST.
lence in the grave will be mighticr
than our speech"
George Engel shouted, Justify:
"Long live anarchy! "
Adolph Fischer said: "This is the
happiest moment Of my life"
Alfred r. Parsons: ''Shall be
allowed to speak? Oh, women and
men of beloved America an inter-
ruption by movement of the sher-